Elizabeth Gaytan Poems

Fly little butterfly fly, for you are beauty and free.
Ever changing, ever transforming.

I am changing, I am forming, I am growing.
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Everyday when I walk by the park, I walk with my face looking at the ground.
I'm afraid to look up, because there u always are.
It hurts to see how happy you've became.
And when you walk by, it's like I don't know you,
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I am a soldier that stands proud and ready.
I am ready to fight when the lions roars at my door.

I wear my uniform with pride because it's my choice.
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I onced smiled but it went away.
He brought back that smile and
I smiled and laughed like no other day.
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Oh! New York, how I wish
you were still here.

Oh! New York, how much
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You stubborn heart, I told you not to fall in love.
You knew the consenquences of the game,
but you still played along.
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Tear my heart, tear it into two's
ripp it out of it's roots.

Let it's blood run through your hand,
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Breathing, I breathe slowly
retrieveing every heartbeat.
I retrieve for nothing,
because your gone.
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So it is called for me to accept
that we are know just friends.
And when saluting you,
I can only shake your hand or
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I search, I look and I can't find.
I keep searching,
I keep looking so I keep running.
But I keep falling,
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